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Police Commissioner Bingham of Now York has issued an order to all bis inspectors in the greater city to prevent any prize fighting that is projected in the five boroughs The order is the most drastic of the kind that so iar lias been issued and ii carried out in strict accordance with the letter of it should put an end lo prize fighting In that city. The order declares prize fighting is under the ban and that those who at tempt to give a porfoimance of any kind shall he arrested immediately. The recent combat between Loach Cross and Packey McFarland, which was attended by more than 3,000 spectators and widely advertised in the newspapers, is said to have influenced the commissioner in taking drastic steps to prevent any future exhibition of the kind.Billy Papke is making plans for his trip to the coast, where he will meet Stanley Kctchel at San Francisco Thanksgiving eve.Harry Lewis is working hard tor a bout with some of the welterweights and again is a claimant of the championship tille at 1*12 pounds He wants to meet any of them, and I he first man he beats he will claim the honor and bo prepared to defend the title.Young Mahoney, the clever middleweight of Milwaukee, was awarded the decision over Billy Rhoades, the Kansas City fighter, at the finish of a 20-round battle which was fought on the turf on an island three miles up the Missouri river from Kansas City the other afternoon, About 500 men witnessed the fight and considerable money changed hands. Mahoney fought with only one hand after the fourth round, he having broken his left hand with a swing on Rhoades’ head.At Philadelphia Jim Trenwith, the Manayunk lightweight, defeated Fred Buck land, the English prize fighter who has made a good impression in former encounters in that oily. Trenwith forced the fighting in every round and he proved too strong and aggressive for the Englishman.Tommy Quill of Brockton, Mass , and Young Loughrey of Philadelphia fought 12 fairly even rounds at Boston and the referee called it a draw.Marvin Hart and John Wille will probably be matched lor a six-round battle iu Philadelphia In the near future.
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Suburbanite Economist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Nov 13, 1908
Page 6
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